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Salim Mansur

Salim Mansur

  posted on Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Iraq stumbles toward democracy

Iraqis again showed how keenly they have taken possession of democracy when they voted on March 7 for their 325-member parliament.

In January 2005, Iraqis had voted with an insurgency raging and with Sunni Arabs, constituting nearly 20% of the population — Iraqi Kurds are Sunni and amount to another 20%, the rest make up the Shiite majority — staging a boycott of the election.

It was nevertheless a remarkable feat of defiance and courage… (Read more)


David Warren

David Warren

  posted on Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Icesave

Today’s column, on the lighter side of bottomless debt, or the levity in leveraging, will be flippant. I ask my reader to bear this in mind. I may offer policy prescriptions to sovereign states that cannot be taken seriously. However he (or she!) should also realize that the policies of those sovereign states are light and flippant and should not be taken seriously.

Truth to tell, I started drafting this column more than a week… (Read more)


Susan Martinuk

Susan Martinuk

  posted on Friday, March 12, 2010
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Say you’re sorry—and then fix the system

One year ago, four medical mistakes occurred over 54 days in the same unit at Alberta Children’s Hospital. A four-year-old patient was given a 15-fold overdose of a narcotic; another was given an accidental overdose of a drug to suppress the immune system. A two-year-old received multiple medications through an IV instead of a stomach tube and a nine-day-old baby received the wrong breast milk.

Something is obviously wrong and until parents of little patients… (Read more)


Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

  posted on Thursday, March 11, 2010
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What’s Arabic For ‘You’re No Atticus Finch’?

A group of “leading conservative lawyers”—a phrase never confused with “U.S. Marines”—has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees.

The letter calls Cheney’s demand “shameful,” before unleashing this steaming pile of idiocy:

“The American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams’ representation of the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre.”

… (Read more)

Barbara Kay

Barbara Kay

  posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Dropping the r-bomb

The bourgeois tyranny of the fully-abled

It was revealed by The Wall Street Journal in late January that at a private strategy session in August, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama’s chief of staff, blasted the internally divisive political ploy proposed by some aggressively left-wing Democrats as “f——-g retarded.”

An intense brouhaha, with disability advocacy groups, Special Olympics spokespeople and even Sarah Palin piling on, confirmed that the word “retarded”—though still a bona fide medical term—has almost… (Read more)


Mike S. Adams

Mike S. Adams

  posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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The Breyer Patch

Justice Stephen Breyer was one of the four dissenting voices in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the landmark Supreme Court case ruling that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is an individual right, rather than a collective right, which merely attaches to service in a state militia. On page 35 of his 44 page dissent, Justice Breyer states the following:

  “The upshot is that the District’s objectives are compelling; its predictive judgments… (Read more)


Mike S. Adams

Mike S. Adams

  posted on Monday, March 08, 2010
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It’s understandable that student newspapers at public universities are left-leaning. The advisors of the papers are usually left-leaning and they often have a left-leaning administration leaning on them. So their coverage of issues like abortion and homosexuality is often skewed. But private religious universities once provided a safe haven for those who wished to express views not approved by the immoral minority. It’s tough to comprehend the extent to which they have fallen prey to… (Read more)


David Warren

David Warren

  posted on Sunday, March 07, 2010
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Does freedom matter?

The short answer to that question, when I have asked various acquaintances of what I would call a “mildly liberal,” or middle-of-the-road disposition, is: “Yes, but ...”

This “but” may correspond to any of many suggested qualifications, and that is the first instructive thing. At best it is freedom versus order, or freedom versus equality, or freedom versus social security. Seldom has the position been thought through. Nor is the need for… (Read more)


Doug Giles

Doug Giles

  posted on Sunday, March 07, 2010
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A Christian pundit, Dawn Eden, thinks my daughter Hannah Giles and her partner James O’Keefe should not have used Saul Alinsky’s deceptive tactics against ACORN because Saul was “evil,” his methods sneaky, and he dedicated his book, Rules for Radicals, to Lucifer.

In addition, Eden took a swipe at Lila Rose, Planned Parenthood’s main pain in the butt, for being deceptive in her undercover vids which exposed Planned Parenthood’s illegal activity. Oh, and I almost… (Read more)


Salim Mansur

Salim Mansur

  posted on Saturday, March 06, 2010
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How does a liberal society deal with a case such as that of Salman Hossain, who posted vile, incendiary messages in public against Jews and others he detests and wishes harm?

It keeps this individual under surveillance and indicts him under the country’s Criminal Code — in Canada it would be section 319 — if he is found to contravene it.

But a liberal society that takes freedom of speech for its anchor will not… (Read more)


Rory Leishman

Rory Leishman

  posted on Saturday, March 06, 2010
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In a rare display of political courage, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown defied public opinion in Britain, by reiterating his firm opposition to the legalization of euthanasia.

In England, as in Canada, the law now clearly provides that anyone who aids, abets or counsels another person to commit suicide is guilty of a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment for up to 14 years. In Britain, a recent poll found that more than 80 per cent… (Read more)


David Warren

David Warren

  posted on Saturday, March 06, 2010
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The Dominion budget tabled this week (or “federal” as we now say, in emulation of the Americans) was full of restraint. We have been assured of this by every media source I’ve seen, and the notion gains additional plausibility from the mild endorsements of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and other worthy, fairly independent monitors. “Baby steps in the right direction” was the message from another policy think tank, that focuses on family issues.

And that’s… (Read more)


S. Wray Gregoire

S. Wray Gregoire

  posted on Friday, March 05, 2010
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Ever since the earthquake struck Haiti my family has been busy raising money. My daughters have baby-sat and helped at bake sales; we’ve mailed off cheques. So please understand, what follows is not mean to discourage anyone’s fundraising efforts.

Nevertheless, I have to admit to finding the remake of “We Are The World” strange. I first heard the original song in the mid-80s when celebrities joined together to rescue Ethiopia. Now it’s out again as… (Read more)


Susan Martinuk

Susan Martinuk

  posted on Friday, March 05, 2010
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Corey Ogilvie wanted to document life in Vancouver’s notorious downtown eastside (DTES) by spending 30 days living alongside the residents of North America’s poorest, most destitute and drug-infested neighbourhood. Film clips of his journey are posted on the Internet and, as one would expect, are highly revealing.

In one clip, he determines he must do drugs to understand addiction. While coming down from a crack high, he decides to try heroin. So his street buddies… (Read more)


Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

  posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010
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It looks like Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is on track to win another endorsement from ACORN!

This week, Hynes announced that “no criminality has been found” after his investigation of the videotapes made by investigative journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, which show ACORN employees counseling the pair on getting a mortgage for a house of prostitution.

(They got a choice of government loans: Phat Fannie Mae, Prince Freddie Mac or Barney Fresh Daddy… (Read more)


David Warren

David Warren

  posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010
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Fourteen gold medals! Granted, the medal inflation to which William Watson the economist drew attention in these pages yesterday, but: 14 gold medals!

I shall remember the Vancouver Winter Olympics not for anything that happened there, except a couple of hockey games. And even those at one remove, for I caught only glimpses in Internet feeds, and missed some of the good bits when my server started glitching. (This is something we seldom had to… (Read more)


Barbara Kay

Barbara Kay

  posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010
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On Sunday, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney praised a Federal Court ruling denying citizenship to Syrian immigrant Nasoh Raslan. At trial, it was revealed that Mr. Raslan’s Ontario “home” phone number was common to 62 other citizenship applicants, and his mailing address to 126 others.

Mr. Raslan reacted to events with a mixture of repentance and perplexity: “I now know that I definitely did not do the right thing,” he averred in an affidavit, “but at… (Read more)


Mike S. Adams

Mike S. Adams

  posted on Monday, March 01, 2010
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Last month, I heard some really bad news. It seems the State of North Carolina is about to lay off 3000 more employees in the midst of a massive budget shortfall. But that wasn’t the only bad news I got last month. I also got this email from a representative of our university’s new LGBTQIA Resource Center:

  I just wanted to remind everyone about the showing of Milk tomorrow night. This will… (Read more)


David Warren

David Warren

  posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010
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I have sometimes thought it would be diverting to put a hockey team together. This idea is not, in itself, very original, but there are a couple of twists in my proposal that might make it uniquely entertaining. For I should like to have a “politically correct” hockey team.

Not sure, just yet, what league it would play in, but by the time it was assembled, I’m not sure what league would dare to turn… (Read more)


Doug Giles

Doug Giles

  posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010
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Why in God’s name would ACORN fold its national name and rebrand itself under a new make and model? I thought Bertha Lewis, the L.A. Times, the New York Times, Wade Rathke, Carrot Top, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, Beelzebub and Ed Schultz declared ACORN to be innocent, lily-white virgins of virtue and truth who were viciously slandered and preyed upon by the crazy college pranksters Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe and that dastardly dude Andrew… (Read more)


Salim Mansur

Salim Mansur

  posted on Saturday, February 27, 2010
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Two notable Muslim leaders died late last year.

Though the deaths of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, 87, of Iran, and Indonesia’s Abdurrahman Wahid, 69, were widely reported, the significance of who they were and what they represented in life was not fully appreciated in the West that is rightly bewildered with the violence tearing apart the world of Islam.

Montazeri was a student of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic in Iran, and… (Read more)


David Warren

David Warren

  posted on Saturday, February 27, 2010
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A piece of ersatz medical research appeals to me deeply, as it might to any middle-aged person. A reader pinged it to me from the Harvard Business Review website: “Brain Functions that Improve with Age,” by Barbara Strauch.

“Ersatz” is perhaps unfair; and a German would anyway flinch at its use as an adjective. I mean the word only to suggest “substitute” in the sense of drawing on the work of fairly respectable neuroscientists; not… (Read more)


Susan Martinuk

Susan Martinuk

  posted on Friday, February 26, 2010
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Canada: No more Mr. Nice Guy. Google the words and you’ll soon realize that the biggest surprise of the Vancouver Olympic Games is . . . Canada and its evil desire to “own the podium.” No longer is “after you” our competitive slogan and no longer are we the country whose citizens, according to author Peter C. Newman, “dream of being Clark Kent, instead of Superman.”

This new-found desire to achieve victory—not just excellence—is taking… (Read more)


Mike S. Adams

Mike S. Adams

  posted on Thursday, February 25, 2010
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Note: Dr. Adams will speak at Amherst College in Amherst, MA on Thursday, March 4th, 2010. His speech on the Second Amendment will begin at 7:20 p.m. in the Bobbott Room (upstairs in the Octagon). The speech is free and open to the public.

I was recently made aware of a new sign that adorns (or adorned) the door of the women’s faculty restroom in the S&B building at UNC – Wilmington. My friend Bob… (Read more)


Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

  posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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Inasmuch as Obamacare has a snowball’s chance in hell of passing (but did you see how much snow they got in hell last week?), everyone is wondering what President Obama is up to by calling Republicans to a televised Reykjavik summit this week to discuss socializing health care.

At least they served beer at the last White House summit this stupid and pointless.

If the president is serious about passing nationalized health care, he ought… (Read more)


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